Experience with bamboo ply

[Charles Darwin]

This ply has a strip core instead of the blocks we see, but the outer plies are horizontal, something i would tend to avoid. Price is equivalent to about 416 euro for a 4x8 (1220x2440) sheet. That compares to about $300 USD for a sheet of ply here.



dave

Same thing in the US is equivalent to about $595 USD/sheet

Seems expensive.
These peeps in the US charge US$185 for a 4'x8' 3/4" sheet of bamboo ply.
3/4 Inch Carbonized Vertical Bamboo Plywood - Cali Bamboo - Cali Bamboo

A similar sized of 24mm finnish birch ply goes for £80 in the UK.
At $600 (£425) I'd expect custom-made ply for which I choose the different layers of wood, mica or damping material (they do that, mostly for noise/footfall suppression in boat building). That said while I found a UK company which specialises in custom ply I have not yet asked them for an exact quote.

 

[layertone]

Seems expensive.
These peeps in the US charge US$185 for a 4'x8' 3/4" sheet of bamboo ply.
3/4 Inch Carbonized Vertical Bamboo Plywood - Cali Bamboo - Cali Bamboo

A similar sized of 24mm finnish birch ply goes for £80 in the UK.
At $600 (£425) I'd expect custom-made ply for which I choose the different layers of wood, mica or damping material (they do that, mostly for noise/footfall suppression in boat building). That said while I found a UK company which specialises in custom ply I have not yet asked them for an exact quote.

CaliBamboo is where I get my Bamboo Plywood from. I'm totally addicted to this material. Once you had filet, it's hard to go back to balonghi Yes it's expensive, but sure worth it! Just recently built a "layertoned" children's desk for an Optometry office... a set of Fruglel Horn XL out of Bamboo Plywood coming up soon!

February 2016 Project of the Month Winners - CaliBamboo GreenShoots

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[Charles Darwin]

May be it's because I'm not american or it's the sign of a misspent youth but whenever I hear or see 'Cali' I think Colombia and cocaine. ;-)

 

[chrisb]

Charles - I think that as long as you survived your youth with all limbs and physical / mental functions mostly intact, it wasn't entirely misspent .

Tony - looking forward to seeing the FHXLs in bamboo - I love the stranded myself, but as I get overly anal about grain / pattern matching with veneers, I can imaging them getting a bit spendy.

 

[planet10]

These peeps in the US charge US$185 for a 4'x8' 3/4" sheet of bamboo ply.
3/4 Inch Carbonized Vertical Bamboo Plywood

Good to see the price coming down, been near 3 years since we bought a sheet.

dave

 

[layertone]

Charles - I think that as long as you survived your youth with all limbs and physical / mental functions mostly intact, it wasn't entirely misspent .

Tony - looking forward to seeing the FHXLs in bamboo - I love the stranded myself, but as I get overly anal about grain / pattern matching with veneers, I can imaging them getting a bit spendy.

For sure, Chris, I've used natural vertical before, but this time I got 2 sheets of the horizontal natural... free from winning the February 2016 Project of the Month Contest

 

[chrisb]

Good to see the price coming down, been near 3 years since we bought a sheet.

dave

well, do the math on currency exchange and current local quotes for the commercial trade at $250 CDN for the simple stuff might seem like a screaming deal - of course that's subject to availability, and if on a new order to be shipped from US warehouse .....

 

[pmgraham]

CaliBamboo is where I get my Bamboo Plywood from. I'm totally addicted to this material. Once you had filet, it's hard to go back to balonghi Yes it's expensive, but sure worth it! Just recently built a "layertoned" children's desk for an Optometry office... a set of Fruglel Horn XL out of Bamboo Plywood coming up soon!

February 2016 Project of the Month Winners - CaliBamboo GreenShoots

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

That's cool. But I'm biased as I am an optometrist by day funnily enough.

 

[pmgraham]

Charles - I think that as long as you survived your youth with all limbs and physical / mental functions mostly intact, it wasn't entirely misspent .

Tony - looking forward to seeing the FHXLs in bamboo - I love the stranded myself, but as I get overly anal about grain / pattern matching with veneers, I can imaging them getting a bit spendy.

I had friends agonising over turning thirty (well passed that now). By my reckoning many should have celebrated for making it passed 19......

Bamboo is all about that end pattern from what I can tell and can well imagine getting anal about getting the edges right.

 

[chrisb]

For the curious, the Neopolitan stranded bamboo product as shown in Dave's reply #2 above was quoted at $375 per sheet, plus freight

 

[layertone]

For the curious, the Neopolitan stranded bamboo product as shown in Dave's reply #2 above was quoted at $375 per sheet, plus freight

Whoa, premium bamboo... Nice!

 

[chrisb]

Definitely denser than the regular vertical or horizontal grain, and fusier to work with if you want to wrap / continue the highly irregular "grain pattern" around all six sides of a box like the mini-onkens shown.